CHAPTER 647

An Act to amend and reenact § 28-70 of the Code of Virginia, relating
to trawling.
[H 214]

Approved April 4, 1952

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
ae That § 28-70 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as

ollows:

§ 28-70. Fishing with trawl] net permitted in certain area.—It shall
not be lawful to catch fish within the three-mile limit of the Virginia
Atlantic shoreline with a trawl net or similar device. * Provided, however,
the Commission of Fisheries may issue permits to trawl within said three
mile limit, in the waters north of Cape Charles to the Maryland line, during
the months of June, July and August of each year.